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Thursday, May 29, 2014

This and That with Jamie Tremain

I’m not really superstitious but I go along with the adage
of things coming in threes and I have been known to touch wood for luck now and
again.

This merry month of May has been anything but merry. The
weather has been so-so but it was a good excuse to get lots of reading done. My
interview and writing schedule has been up in the air as my laptop limped along
and finally crashed.

Then my husband came down with bronchitis and I did my
Florence Nightingale role. Just when he is on the mend, with my nursing care I
might add, he says... “I can hear water running. Did you leave a tap on again?”

As
I'm hard of hearing I have often left taps running as I walk away and not
heard the offending trickle.

He searched the house and found the water. Fortunately the
water leaked from the ceiling in the bathroom into the bathtub. This bathroom
is not used much in the basement so we don’t know how long the water has been
leaking. A plumber found the cause after tearing the ceiling and tiles off the
walls. A tiny pinprick in a copper pipe! The drying out will be three days and then
hopefully they will put it back again.

So it’s all go here but I can’t get my mind around writing.
I should be outside planting and weeding and all that stuff but.. next week
will do. That’s before I attend the Bloody Words conference with Liz in Toronto.

So looking forward to this event and meeting old friends and new.

This is what I have been reading when not dealing with all my
woes! You can stop playing the violin now.

Deryn Collier –

Open
Secrets with Bern Fortin- Coroner as the main protagonist. Thought provoking
with a main character who is intriguing and very engaging.

Corpse Flower / Strange flowers and bikers and
pot. What a combination. My kind of
humour.

Melodie Campbell

The God Daughters Revenge/ A mob caper/ Laugh
a minute.

Cathy Ace

The
Corpse with the Golden Nose

This BC author by way of Wales is new to me. I certainly will read the others in the Cait
Morgan series. I'm looking forward to meeting her at Bloody Words.

Kay Kendall

Desolation
Row Excellent debut novel. Kay is a FB buddy and we will be meeting her next Friday at the conference. She hails from Texas but has based her book in 1968 Toronto. That was my coming of age and she had it right on.When is your next book out Kay?